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KHAN OF KHANS is live on Kickstarter—the battle begins on the Plains of Prax!Our Reiner Knizia card game is fun and fast, and an ideal family game for ages 9+.The Kickstarter campaign runs from January 10 - January 31, and we'd love your support. We are looking for tribal members to take up the … read more

By Jeff RichardSo it has been a few months since I've written up a recent design notes for the new edition of RuneQuest, but with a New Year comes new design notes!To begin with, a progress report: Jason Durall is now doing his last wave of edits (after adding copious edits from Steve Perrin) to the … read more

A world of gods, heroes, and mythic fantasy, fully described in epic detailThe 2015 Diana Jones-winning Guide to Glorantha has returned! And to mark the fiftieth year of Greg Stafford's mythic universe, the second printing is housed in a magnificent "50th Anniversary of Glorantha" slipcase.&nbs … read more

At Internationale Spieltage '15 last year, the iconic American game company Chaosium announced a partnership with world renowned game designer Reiner Knizia to produce two board games in the coming year.This year at Essen, the first of these games has been officially revealed.KHAN OF KHANS is a … read more

Geek & Sundry deftly explains why while most other 70s RPGs lie rotting in landfills, RuneQuest still inspires devotion. And Sandy Petersen himself has some interesting points to make about RQ's singular appeal...http://geekandsundry.com/4-reasons-you-need-to-pla...TLDR? - here are the four … read more

A note of thanks from Chaosium...It's over - Sandy Petersen's The Gods War attracted nearly 2000 backers, and raised over $585K - wow! Sandy has his note of thanks from Petersen Games to everyone who supported the campaign in this Kickstarter update link.And we at Chaosium also wish to tha … read more

Star Trek is 50 years old today. And Greg Stafford also discovered his mythic fantasy setting Glorantha in 1966 too. But did you know that in the intervening half-century Glorantha has found its way into the Star Trek universe?Robert Hewitt Wolfe, RuneQuest fan and one of the pro … read more

SORCERY!By Jeff RichardSo, there is a lot of interest in the new sorcery rules for RuneQuest!Here then is how they work in a nutshell: sorcery involves manipulating one or more Runes with a Technique according to a formula (or "spell").Runes and TechniquesA sorcerer's understanding of the Runes is n … read more